MOST Touching Wing Commander Moment...

frostytheplebe

frostytheplebe

Seventh Part of the Seal
I started off on WC3 so loosing the Concordia wasn't a big shocker to me. But then going back and playing WC1 I got accustomed to the "Ol' Tiger's Claw" crew: Angel, Paladin, Jazz, Bluehair, Doomsday (those that survived to see you on the Concordia).

I was sad to lose most of them... anyway, as Eisen said it "To Buisness:" I was wondering if anyone had one moment they can think of in Wing Commander that really got them. Was it a moment that filled you with joy? A surprising moment? Or like me, a moment that almost caused me to shed a tear... ALMOST :p.

For me, one moment touched me more then any other ever could:

"Tengoku de omachishi te imasu" (I will wait for you in Heaven).
 
Svetlana blowing herself, her marines, and Kilrathi Moonbase up, while Jason has to give the order to pull out.

In fact, that whole run out of Kilrah was momentous for me, I don't know why. I think it's probably the best symbol (to me) of the strength the human race can sink to it when it's desperately fighting for it's own survival. The fight of the Tarawa out of Kilrah sort of parallels the whole war for me, I guess: the desperation and creativity of the humans manages a win against a numerically superior foe, largely due to enemy mistakes.

It does a good job of conveying both the military aspects of the war, and the personal ones, as well.
 
frostytheplebe said:
For me, one moment touched me more then any other ever could:

"Tengoku de omachishi te imasu" (I will wait for you in Heaven).
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In a similar vein, Iceman finding out his daughter was alive is up there.

Finding out Angel died/ was captured was a bit of a shocker/ sad for a vet of the first two games when the third installment first came out. Even if I suspected her dead, I really wasn't prepared for how violent her death was.
 
Unfortunately, I don't have my Prophecy Gold manual with me, it's all boxed up. So I'm sure I'll have trouble identifying this moment. But I thought the part in the manual with the fragmented transmission from the station that was attacked was kind of emotional. Since that woman was the only apparent survivor and she seemed all alone and you couldn't make out everything she was saying. I just pictured some fairly sad ambient music playing while I was reading that part. Anyone else know what I'm talking about? I wish I had my manual with me to look it up.
 
Marvelous. Thank you. Yeah, the first time I read that it actually gave me the chills a bit. Kind of like when you're listening to shortwave radio transmissions.
 
For me it was dropping the bomb on Kilrah. I manually flew the Excalibur cloaked from waypoint to waypoint (to avoid fighting the Kats) and had a lot of time to sit there and think. And I got to thinking about all the pilots/characters that I'd come to know over the course of the series who had been killed. And I'd especially become a big fan of Flint but she'd just been killed (in my game) a few missions earlier. The whole sequence just struck me as very climactic and poignant.

Also I was bummed on my last playthrough of WC4 when I was on the tail of a Hellcat and burned it literally a second too late to stop it from killing Catscratch. *sniff*
 
Falcon988 said:
Also I was bummed on my last playthrough of WC4 when I was on the tail of a Hellcat and burned it literally a second too late to stop it from killing Catscratch. *sniff*
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It's kind of neat, and sad, that if you wait around on the "rescue catscratch mission" and sit back and watch (as long as you don't destroy the longbows) the longbows will try to tractor catscratch in rather than blow him up. But catscratch blows up his own fighter before he's completely tractored in to keep them from getting the satelite back. In some ways it's a rather moving end to his and Sosa's story and gives som poignancy to Sosa's reaction to the terible things on Telamon. Also you get a third reaction from Sosa, As opposed to the happy/ angry you get a sad sosa who "knows you tried" as opposed to leaving him to die if you chose to continue on your previous mission
 
He DID blow himself up didn't he? Well then who the hell was it that died a second before I could destroy the Hellcat that killed him? Oh man this is going to be bothering me now.
 
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